Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long before he left Boston. On the Lexington Green, residents acting as the British redcoats will have routed neighbors dressed as Minutemen and marched off to participate in Concord's parade to the old North Bridge, the site of the second skirmish. Residents of both Lexington and Concord regard the hordes of tourists-up to 500,000 are expected-as the real enemy and are suitably prepared. There will be 200 portable toilets, 60 lunch stands, 19 Red Cross stations and 400 National Guardsmen standing by in case of trouble...
...point of the department's course, an unusual program conceived by Riverside Police Chief R. Fred Ferguson and his staff. He has been worried by the persisting clashes and lack of cooperation between his cops and the 18,000 Mexican-Americans who live in the city. The cops regard the high-crime area as enemy territory bristling with real and imagined dangers; the Chicanos view the police as alien, brutal oppressors who despise their way of life...
...Harvard and Radcliffe admissions offices this year considered New Jersey applications without regard to sex, in an experiment that one admissions official termed a "preview of equal access...
...were saddened by the collapse in Indochina, U.S. Congressmen touring their districts during the Easter recess encountered practically no support for President Ford's plea for further military aid. Observed Democrat Don Bonker of Washington State: "People are drained. They want to bury the memory of Indochina. They regard it as a tragic chapter in American life, but they want no further part of it." Said Republican Garner Shriver of Kansas: "The feeling is that we have made a considerable contribution to Cambodia and South Viet Nam and that we've done enough." Added Democrat Joseph Gaydos, whose...
Then, with stunning suddenness, the war burst upon the U.S. all over again. Hué, Danang, Pleiku, Kontum-hearing the names once more is like suffering a relapse of some virulent disease. It is impossible for Americans to regard the flow of refugees and the anguish of the orphans without pangs of sorrow and even outrage. Every image of a bewildered child, of a weeping mother, makes a claim on the conscience. However disastrous the final results, most Americans once sincerely felt that they were aiding these people. Now one cannot escape the obvious question: If the long American presence...